Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
Fri 31 Oct Sat 01 Nov
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Saga S-312
Saga S-346
Saga - Open area - ground floor
Saga S-114
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Migrant youth integration and Educational Inclusion: Exploring the process of migration, inclusive relational practices and school climate
10:45am - 12:15pm
Saga S-312
Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir
Location: Saga S-312
Session Chair: Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir
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IMMIGRATION AND INITIAL ADAPTATION OF UKRAINIAN YOUTH IN LITHUANIA

Dmytro Mamaiev


Migrant students’ integration in schools in Finland, Scotland and Sweden

Natasa Pantic


Imagining Futures in Uncertainty: Exploring Refugee Youth Aspirations Through Arts-Based Methods

Erma Fetić Mujić

Artistic Expressions: Creative Outlets and the Refugee Experience
1:15pm - 2:45pm
Saga S-312
Magnús Bernhardsson
Location: Saga S-312
Session Chair: Magnús Bernhardsson
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SensArticulate: Advancing Affect-Centered Research Methods in Trauma Research with the Most Vulnerable Displaced Individuals

Nena Mocnik


Art as a Bridge? How Art-Making Sparks Play and Fosters Inclusion for Refugee Children and Youth

Yi Jen Chang, Barbara Hielscher-Witte


Identity and Belonging in the Art of 1.5-Generation African Asylum-Seeking Artists in Israel

Hamutal Sadan

Critical and Intersectional Approaches in Migration Research
10:45am - 12:15pm
Saga S-346
Lara Hoffmann
Location: Saga S-346
Session Chair: Lara Hoffmann
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Constructing “Asylum”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Greece’s Immigration Policy in 2025

Efthymia Garidi, Spyros Apergis


Divided families, divisive policies: the contentious politics of refugee family reunification in Europe and its impacts on children and young people

Lucy Hunt

Children and Youth at the Margins: Disability, Visibility, and Empowerment
1:15pm - 2:45pm
Saga S-346
Hrafnhildur Kvaran
Location: Saga S-346
Session Chair: Hrafnhildur Kvaran
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Educational Hospitality at the Intersection of Forced Migration and Disability: Listening to the Voices of Ukrainian Refugee Children with Disabilities

Marketa Bacakova


Well-being and Trauma of Ukrainian Child Refugees in the Context of Czechia

Lucie Mackova


Invisible at the Border: Reimagining Refugeehood through the Case of Yemeni Children and Youth

Saber Naji Haimed

Registration
8:00am - 4:00pm
Saga - Open area - ground floor
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
You can pick up your nametag and lanyard at the registration table.
Coffee/Tea Break
10:15am - 10:45am
Saga - Open area - ground floor
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
Coffee/Tea Break
2:45pm - 3:15pm
Saga - Open area - ground floor
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
Welcome Reception
5:15pm - 6:15pm
Saga - Open area - ground floor
Location: Saga - Open area - ground floor
This will be a wonderful opportunity to meet fellow participants, speakers, and organizers in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

Light refreshments will be served, and everyone is warmly encouraged...
Opening session
9:00am - 9:15am
Saga S-114
Location: Saga S-114
Welcome to the New Frontiers Conference 2025!
Kolbrún Þorbjörg Pálsdóttir, Dean, School of Education, University of Iceland will deliver the opening address.
Keynote - Laura Robson - Youthful peril, youthful promise: Rhetoric versus reality around refugee children and young people
9:15am - 10:15am
Saga S-114
Location: Saga S-114
Laura Robson is Professor in the Department of History and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. She is a scholar of international and Middle Eastern history, with a special interes...
Internationalist descriptions of displaced communities often comment on their statistical youthfulness as an indicator of a basic problem – sometimes worrying about young people’s high levels of need, but more often unreflectively associating youth, in itself, with the potential for social disruptio...
ESRCI refugee children project – presentation
3:15pm - 5:15pm
Saga S-114
Location: Saga S-114
Apart and a Part: New Frontiers in Researching Resettlement Refugees in Iceland

In this panel and roundtable, the inter-disciplinary group of eleven scholars associated with the multi-year research...
Lunch break
12:15pm - 1:15pm
Lunch is not included in the conference ticket. Participants can purchase lunch in the nearby canteens and restaurants.
Here is an example of restaurants nearby, open on Friday, Oct 31:
Háma - Saga
Háma - Háskólatorg
Stúdentakjallarinn
Soup Station in Veröld (ground floor)
Plantan Bistro - Nordic House (all vegan)
Eiríksdóttir - Gróska
Kaffi Ýmir - in Edda
Joe & The Juice